After eating the double-yolked egg, Little Dream Dragon, as expected, fell into a deep sleep. It could only communicate simply through the M-shaped Mark on Russell's left palm.
Over the next day, Russell took Black Oil Dragon Rosai and Unicorn Polly wandering through the depths of the snowfield again. He then hunted two Snow Demons and obtained two Ice Soul Beads. Together with the one from before, he had accumulated three in total.
He had amassed more than three hundred Hail Beads as well.
"As a Wyvern Knight, I make money ridiculously fast." After musing over this, Russell decided to return to his territory.
The supplies he had brought with him were running low.
They sped all the way back and soon returned to the Green Capital Snow Forest. When they crossed the hazy boundary, the Shadowflame Dragon's protection descended upon them once more, and the ten or twenty percent of Rosai's strength that had been weakened was fully restored.
Roar!
Rosai let out a dragon's cry, her spirits soaring.
Russell felt the same.
Returning to the land protected by the Shadowflame Dragon, the feeling of once again being wrapped in warmth allowed Russell's taut nerves, strained for two days, to finally relax.
Only Polly remained unaffected. Although Phantom Beasts were also born from the Shadowflame Dragon's power, unlike wyverns, which always needed to draw upon the Shadowflame Dragon's power, Phantom Beasts became independent individuals once they matured.
They were no longer affected by the Shadowflame Dragon's power.
"Caw!" Sensing Russell's arrival, Harpy Dragon Harpe from Green Capital Garden Cold Spring Point flew into the sky to meet him.
"Harpe, my good partner." Russell laughed heartily.
As the saying went, a brief parting rekindled love like newlyweds. Though a Phantom Beast contract was not marriage, some principles still carried over.